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zmotorsports · May 30, 2018

LXCam said:
Thanks Mike, coming from you means a lot my friend.

Poor Mike had to put up with my ******* questions while contemplating the design. But his answers where priceless with all his experience in both the towing department and his bumper builds.

Not a problem at all Cam. I was happy to help and honored that you thought enough to ask me. Glad to help my friend but it was all you on the fabrication. :thumbup:

Can't wait to see the powder coated finished bumper. :beer:

tarmy · Jun 3, 2018

Yesterdays effort...custom front quad basket to hold more stuff...

zmotorsports · Jun 4, 2018

tarmy said:
Yesterdays effort...custom front quad basket to hold more stuff...

Looks to be a handy addition. Nice work.

A**holes Garage · Jun 4, 2018

Bought a new AHP TIG welder, so I had to make a cart for it;

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Muggzy · Jun 4, 2018

tarmy said:
Yesterdays effort...custom front quad basket to hold more stuff...

Very nice (and motivating). Now I want to build a rear tie-down for my Brute. [emoji106]

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Duker · Jun 4, 2018

LXCam said:
I'd luv to say this was my weekend project but considering I only got a half a day I'm on it.......you could consider it three weekends work.

Dude.... I thought you were just kicking back in the Cali sun sipping on a Mai Tai but no.....you were actually working!

Let me join in with the crowd... looks great Cam! You can definitely see a little Zmotorsports influence in the design!

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zmotorsports · Jun 4, 2018

A**holes Garage said:
Bought a new AHP TIG welder, so I had to make a cart for it;

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Cart looks great. Nice collection of rainbow rod holders there. :lol_hitti

zmotorsports · Jun 4, 2018

Duker said:
Dude.... I thought you were just kicking back in the Cali sun sipping on a Mai Tai but no.....you were actually working!

Let me join in with the crowd... looks great Cam! You can definitely see a little Zmotorsports influence in the design!

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I think Cam nailed the bumper. I need to take pointers from him on my next ones. :beer:

It turned out fantastic.

A**holes Garage · Jun 4, 2018

zmotorsports said:
Cart looks great. Nice collection of rainbow rod holders there.

in hindsight, probably would have just used one color, each one has different rod... :thumbup:

chipdog4 · Jun 4, 2018

Whipped up this little subsoiler for my father's garden tractor.
Intentions are to use it to break up the ground a bit before hooking up the tiller to the garden tractor.
It's only 23 horse, so I don't know how deep I can get it to pull. May have to narrow the width of the blade some, too.
Used about 8' of 1/2"x2" scrap steel that got a few bends.

I'll be making a much larger one this fall for his tractor. He's been borrowing a single shank that rips down about 20" deep and is wanting a 2 shank subsoiler to get done a bit quicker.
Have a 1" thick plate 42"x42" I plan to use for it.
Like a combination of these 2...
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Dirt-Dog-HDSS2-3pt-super-duty-sub-soiler-ripper/262744071491?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2055119.m1438.l2649
https://www.ebay.com/itm/IFE-H-Dty-3-Shank-Ripper-Sub-Soiler-WearPlatesOnShanks-BESTBUY-QUALITY-IN-STOCK/392003318198?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2055119.m1438.l2649

tarmy · Jun 4, 2018

Muggzy said:
Very nice (and motivating). Now I want to build a rear tie-down for my Brute. [emoji106]

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Make your quad into a dumper like mine...

The front basket is getting replaced by that custom one...

bggrnchvy · Jun 5, 2018

I've built a lot of things in my garage thread, but some of the more recent welding projects:

My mig needed a new home and it need bigger wheels. I had a couple extra draw clamps and 10" pipe so I made the bottle mount out of those and used a piece of chain for a hinge on one side.

Then I snagged a cheap inverter plasma perfect for cart duty from one of the deal threads and it slotted nicely in the lower section with enough room for cables. There's a 10lb spool of flux core under and behind the plasma so the mig can do double duty.

The industrial recycler next door had given us a pallet of old metal cabinets that are perfect for tooling storage for the mill and the lathe to get it all up off the ground. Drawers slide out with a little lift on the lip, so height wasn't an issue. I built a little frame to support the cabinet like it was sitting on the ground between the steel and the chair rail on the wall.

I used some 3/8 self drillers to secure the cabinet to the angle on the wall.

Last, I needed to mount the electrical enclosure with the VFD and power supply for the tach for the drill press. I made a clamp out of some strip and round tube and a mounting plate.

With the box mounted and working.

RagTopTA · Jun 6, 2018

A**holes Garage said:
Bought a new AHP TIG welder, so I had to make a cart for it;

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I bought the same Tig a year ago. Pretty good little machine. Im still learning. Have a long ways to go!

DocsMachine · Jun 7, 2018

Just picked up a Wilmont 2x72" belt grinder, and made a mobile stand for it. I don't really have a room I can keep grinders in, so while a shop-vac and a spark-catcher will work for small jobs, for extensive grinding, I plan to be able to roll it outside.

So I made this stand for it:

It works like a hand truck, you tilt it towards you, and roll it around on the two wheels, then set it back upright. None of my floors are terribly level, and I wanted it to be fairly stable even outside, so I designed it with three "feet" rather than four.

I made these little doodads to hold the wheels...

And they attached like so:

I haven't painted it yet, as I'm going to wait 'til I have a bigger collection of contact wheels and tooling arms. At that point I'll make a "rack" of some sort underneath to hold them (in some way where they won't slide out and squish my toes

) and then paint it.

Doc.

zmotorsports · Jun 7, 2018

DocsMachine said:
I made these little doodads to hold the wheels...

And they attached like so:

Doc.

Cool little "doo-dad". :beer:

Bigblue&Goldie · Jun 7, 2018

Doc, what saw are you using to cut the square stock for the wheel mounts? It appears you're getting some nice, repeatable cuts.

DocsMachine · Jun 7, 2018

DoAll bandsaw.

Than lightly dusted off with the grinder itself.

Doc.

A**holes Garage · Jun 7, 2018

RagTopTA said:
I bought the same Tig a year ago. Pretty good little machine. Im still learning. Have a long ways to go!

Yeah, I spent a couple hours fooling around with it. I see lots and lots more hours to go myself. :thumbup:

Bigblue&Goldie · Jun 7, 2018

DocsMachine said:
DoAll bandsaw.

Than lightly dusted off with the grinder itself.

Doc.

That makes more sense; I was wondering what kind of saw could clamp on such a small piece of material and still make an angle cut. :lol_hitti

txvwnut · Jun 7, 2018

Bigblue&Goldie said:
That makes more sense; I was wondering what kind of saw could clamp on such a small piece of material and still make an angle cut.

You could do those pieces in a chop saw too. Start with your first angle then rotate the piece 180 degrees in the vise and make the second cut and you’ve got a small piece with opposing angles.

Bigblue&Goldie · Jun 8, 2018

txvwnut said:
You could do those pieces in a chop saw too. Start with your first angle then rotate the piece 180 degrees in the vise and make the second cut and you’ve got a small piece with opposing angles.

I agree, but I've yet to see a chop saw that will clamp and cut such a short length.

My whole inquiry is because I just ordered a HEM 782XL bandsaw, and those cuts looked like they were made by a bandsaw blade, but I don't think the HEM saw I ordered would've been able to make those cuts for the above stated reason. It never dawned on me that it was done on a vertical bandsaw.

Old Man Roger · Jun 8, 2018

Bigblue&Goldie said:
I agree, but I've yet to see a chop saw that will clamp and cut such a short length.

My whole inquiry is because I just ordered a HEM 782XL bandsaw, and those cuts looked like they were made by a bandsaw blade, but I don't think the HEM saw I ordered would've been able to make those cuts for the above stated reason. It never dawned on me that it was done on a vertical bandsaw.

You might be missing the point he's trying to make. You can cut those pieces from a long piece of material. Clamp the long piece, cut one angle at the end, slide the material 3 inches or so, then rotate the whole piece or just change the angle of the blade. You would still have plenty of material in the vise.

pgk · Jun 8, 2018

Just a little ole Doall vertical saw! LOL One of my friends has one, sure is a beast of a saw. Makes my Ellis look like a toy.

kkroger · Jun 8, 2018

Don't know if I posted this one before... Almost a year since this overnight on site fabrication and install... we did the art walls (zebra stripe boxes) as well... and the Top Basins for the Water Feature and the metal cladding on the catch basins there are two of these and they are opposite and we killed it despite the best efforts of the client...

Most of the fabrication was done on site, the long brakes were done by another shop per design, the CNC Plasma was done in house, the cladding was all cut to fit on the catch basins, the top basins and weirs were fabricated in house then the multi bump curved panes in the front of those basins were made to fit, and attached in the field the inlets for the basins were 4" NPT ******* 4 of them firing into an 8" x12' diverter plate, when they first turned on the pumps the water shot out of the upper basin and cleared the bottom catch basins... so they had to install a bypass pipe... to unload the pump pressure, it STILL overshoots the board form concrete panel it was supposed to laminate the weir and run down the panel but they have too much pressure... we even did the math on it and told them what was going to happen and they scoffed at us....

txvwnut · Jun 8, 2018

Old Man Roger said:
You might be missing the point he's trying to make. You can cut those pieces from a long piece of material. Clamp the long piece, cut one angle at the end, slide the material 3 inches or so, then rotate the whole piece. You would still have plenty of material in the vise.

That’s exactly how you do it, or how I do it when needed.

alwaysFlOoReD · Jun 9, 2018

Cheap vise stand;
1] a cheap vise
2] flat plate cut to fit bottom of vise
3] a driveshaft cut to length
4] an old ag disc

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gicts · Jun 9, 2018

kkroger said:
overnight on site fabrication and install...

What's the story on the rush and lack of sleep?

Whiskeymike · Jun 9, 2018

Nicely done. Did you draw up the TJ bumper? My daughter is looking to build one for her 97 and a drawing would be helpful if you were willing to share.

mlb6d9 · Jun 9, 2018

Hi Folks - I've been lurking in the shadows for several years now getting great ideas from this forum. I wanted to share a simple project I just finished that solves the issue (for me anyway) of floor jack storage. If something like this has already been posted, I do apologize. I did a quick search beforehand and nothing popped up.....

Up until now, I've always had to stash it somewhere underneath something, and when I need it I have to crawl around retrieve it, then go fetch the two-piece handle from somewhere else. I got this idea from the gentleman at rougeriverworkshop.blogspot.com, and just modified it so I could hang it between studs. Most of the garage walls are finished except for one area, and by pure dumb luck, one of the remaining stud bays is exactly the same width of the jack at the widest spot. Anyway, I hope this helps someone with the same issue I was having. Thanks for all the great garage ideas everyone!!

kkroger · Jun 9, 2018

gicts said:
What's the story on the rush and lack of sleep?

Client was a PITA, they wanted it in at a certain time and too many yahoos on site during the day so we did it overnight... Most of the "Hard" work was done during the day then AW and I went out there and cut and fabbed what we needed to on site... we were offsite before the first of the yahoos showed up in the morning.

LXCam · Jun 9, 2018

Today's project, build more stuff just to build more stuff. So I need to build some fenders for the jeep but didn't like the large radius my other tubing bender bent too so I did what all GJ dudes would do, I bought a new tubing bender set. Which meant some method of table attachment.

LXCam · Jun 9, 2018

One of these days I'll try to remember to reduce the quality size so I can post more than three pics at a time. Sorry guys.

LXCam · Jun 9, 2018

Not bad but the casting on the shoe needs to be cleaned up as the roughness transferred to the metal and the hook needs to be radiused so it doesn't mark the tube as well. All in all none of the welds broke so I dun ok I guess

LXCam · Jun 9, 2018

Well I decided to add a little bit to the bumper. I'll finish boxing it in tomorrow. This will allow me to hang somewhere along the lines of a 14"+ light bar off it.

Ole Slewfoot · Jun 10, 2018

That die sure does leave its mark.

Obsolete NLA trailer spindle D washer...
hammered a copper pipe back plate and a copper dam to fit inside the closest fitting washer, then cleaned with a file and rotary stone. It took a lot less time than I spent trying to locate and buy one.

Copper is pretty good heat sink, and weld generally wont stick to it.

Old under the new, close enough.

1/2 Cup · Jun 10, 2018

kkroger said:
Don't know if I posted this one before... Almost a year since this overnight on site fabrication and install... we did the art walls (zebra stripe boxes) as well... and the Top Basins for the Water Feature and the metal cladding on the catch basins there are two of these and they are opposite and we killed it despite the best efforts of the client...

Most of the fabrication was done on site, the long brakes were done by another shop per design, the CNC Plasma was done in house, the cladding was all cut to fit on the catch basins, the top basins and weirs were fabricated in house then the multi bump curved panes in the front of those basins were made to fit, and attached in the field the inlets for the basins were 4" NPT ******* 4 of them firing into an 8" x12' diverter plate, when they first turned on the pumps the water shot out of the upper basin and cleared the bottom catch basins... so they had to install a bypass pipe... to unload the pump pressure, it STILL overshoots the board form concrete panel it was supposed to laminate the weir and run down the panel but they have too much pressure... we even did the math on it and told them what was going to happen and they scoffed at us....

Top job

1/2 Cup · Jun 10, 2018

All you guys do some awesome work many thanks for posting.. :bowdown:

Keep them coming.

Ole Slewfoot · Jun 10, 2018

1/2 Cup said:
Top job

Except the ahole who put flagstone to keep the skateboarders out of the pool. That guy needs his gears ground :lol:

ndr1968 · Jun 10, 2018

Ole Slewfoot said:
That die sure does leave its mark.

Obsolete NLA trailer spindle D washer...
hammered a copper pipe back plate and a copper dam to fit inside the closest fitting washer, then cleaned with a file and rotary stone. It took a lot less time than I spent trying to locate and buy one.

Copper is pretty good heat sink, and weld generally wont stick to it.

Old under the new, close enough.

That's what I'm talkin' about!! If you have a welder and a brain you can fix just about any dam thing!

shortykorte · Jun 10, 2018

Ole Slewfoot said:
Except the ahole who put flagstone to keep the skateboarders out of the pool. That guy needs his gears ground

Exactly

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